And neither “what they think effective altruism means or where and when they first heard of it” is likely to capture all—or perhaps even most—respondents whose opinion of EA has been downgraded by the scandal, or who haven’t heard about FTX yet but will downgrade once SBF’s trial gives another big round of publicity.
More probative would be responses to something like: “Do you have any concerns or negative opinions about EA, and if so what are they?”
And neither “what they think effective altruism means or where and when they first heard of it” is likely to capture all—or perhaps even most—respondents whose opinion of EA has been downgraded by the scandal, or who haven’t heard about FTX yet but will downgrade once SBF’s trial gives another big round of publicity.
More probative would be responses to something like: “Do you have any concerns or negative opinions about EA, and if so what are they?”